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Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing
Best of the Oxford American Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing Author:John Grisham, Rick Bass, Larry Brown, Roy Blount Jr., John Updike, Susan Sontag, Steve Martin, Donna Tartt, William Faulkner A comprehensive anthology of The Oxford American's most memorable pieces published during the first decade of the magazine's existence, these articles prove provocative, opinionated, and irreverent. The Oxford American has served as an incubator and archive for the most promising and most established voices in contemporary Southern writing. It o... more »ffers up an extraordinary range of perspectives on a multitude of subjects, while always avoiding the hackneyed notion of the South as the exclusive province of the gothic or the sentimental dominion of moonlight and magnolias. Collected here are the magazine's stellar fiction and poetry offered alongside its best commentary, profiles, photography, comics, and reporting on politics, history, religions, art, books, film, and humor.« less